STATUS: IN REVIEW
Short description
This step is mainly about understanding what users and stakeholders from your domain need to quickly discover or preselect data(sets) of their interest in a catalogue. These requirements can be formulated in the form of small user stories and/or competency questions (CQs, see Examples step 2 ) to approach this from a user-centered perspective. From these stories or CQs key metadata elements (requirements) can be extracted. Analyzing these requirements helps to decide which are the most important for creating domain specific metadata fields.
Note that all kind of domain metadata schemas, information models, ontologies and vocabularies may exist already. Analyzing this is part of the next step. The current step is important to understand the domain’s user’s needs, so that in next steps this can be effectively incorporated in the modeling.
Deliverables
Deliverable | Description |
|---|---|
Requirements document | A comprehensive document outlining the metadata requirements gathered from stakeholders, in the form of competency questions. |
Scope statement | A clear statement defining the scope and boundaries of the metadata schema. |
How
See the example page for some concrete examples: Examples step 2
Gathering requirements. Conduct interviews, surveys, and workshops to understand the metadata needs and user stories. Doing this in the form of interviews, focus groups or workshops usually works better than sending out a form, because catalogue users may not be used to thinking in terms of potential queries they may perform in a catalogue. During an interview or workshop you have the possibility to guide this process and ask further questions.
Define scope. Establish the boundaries of what the schema will cover and prioritize requirements. Have a look at the Health-RI metadata schema and HealthDCAT-AP to see what is already covered for your domain.
HRI hub involvement in this step
The HRI Data Team can provide further advice on user stories and competency questions.
Further reading
Metroline Define FAIRification objectives: https://health-ri.atlassian.net/wiki/x/NIA2Bg